Brazil Becomes Hot Market for Surveillance Technology Ahead of World Cup
Giants of the surveillance sector get contracts in a number of Brazilian cities during the games of 2014 – from security scanners to remote...
New Medical Air Filtration Systems
By iHLS NewsDesk
A group of Israeli eye doctors climbs a mountain somewhere in Latin America, to an altitude of almost 10,000 feet. Their goal:...
Report: US Lacks Strategy To Prevent Citizens From Traveling To Syria,...
The House Homeland Security Committee’s bipartisan Foreign Fighter Task Force released its final report stating that Washington lacks a strategy to prevent Americans from...
Integrating robots in disaster areas
This last weekend was a highlight for 23 teams from around the world that took part in the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency contest....
Germany Tightens The Reins On Spy Service
The US National Security Agency (NSA) overstepped an intelligence-sharing agreement with Germany by requesting German technicians to snoop on allied governments‘ emails, a top-level...
Singapore will be a safe city
The Government of Singapore has chosen AGT International-O'Connor's to participate in its Safe City project. AGT-O'Connor's, with its consortium partner Hitachi, will implement a...
Estonia Hosts European Cyber-Defense Excercise
NATO countries and partner nations on Tuesday started large-scale cyber defense exercises aimed at testing the alliance’s ability to fend off cyber attacks against...
U.S. port facilities vulnerable to cyber attack!
In a 50-page policy paper just released by the Brookings Institute and authored by Commander Joseph Kramek of the U.S. Coast Guard and a...
Managing medical treatment in mass casualties’ events with limited means
Red Cross shares its knowledge with Israel's first responders
Dr. Harald Veen, chief surgeon of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva,...
New Israeli lifesaving alert system
A few days ago , Israel received a disturbing wake-up call when a couple of rockets were fired into one of its central tourist...
Defense technology helps to predict killer storms
When the TV weatherman predicts sunshine and it rains, people get wet. When meteorologists are wrong about a hurricane, people can die. While forecasters...
The Earthquake Has Passed – How Do You Prepare For The...
Natural disasters may cause loss of information existing in the computer systems, leading to businesses and infrastructure collapsing. Proper planning for recovery after natural...
Surveillance cameras in passenger planes?
Discussions in the aftermath of the Germanwings plane crash have raised the demand that surveillance cameras would be put in the cockpit, as an...
An Assisting Technology that Can Save Life
The daily routine of the emergency service personnel, cops, fire fighters and emergency medicine doctors, is packed full with a wide variety of events,...
BCP&IT Conference: The New Crisis Management C4I Array Revealed
The Crisis management computing array, an emergency management facility, is one of Israel's largest building and C4I projects. The project took several years to...
New Sewer Sensors Sniff Out Signs of Bombs and Drugs
Bomb-makers and chemists with Breaking Bad crystal-meth type labs better watch out. A sewer system full of chemical sensors could sniff out their homemade...
Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17- complicated investigation
The U.S is doing a huge effort to prove that pro-Russian separatists are responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines FlightMH17.
The United States is...
Syrian Refugees Attemp To Enter US
Eight Syrians have been detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents as they tried to enter the United States from Texas in the Laredo Sector.
The...
Turkey Forms Comprehensive Border Control Unit to Protect Homeland Security
Paz Shabtai
Perhaps due to international pressure, mainly from the US and Russia, to secure its border with Syria and to enforce strict border control,...
The Right Tool for the Right job – Fending off Cyber...
Ever since the dawn of man, survival was a shaping factor in the evolution of man and society. Truth to be told, 10,000 years...
US Flags More Than 500 For National Security Concerns
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data show that every day, hundreds of travelers going through airports, seaports, and land border crossings are flagged...
Portable Scanner to Detect Concealed Weapons
Prototype radar scanners that can detect weapons concealed on people in public spaces is set to undergo real-world testing next year. According to the...
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A New Quantum Breakthrough Could Change Signal Detection on the Battlefield
Modern military and civilian communications environments are becoming increasingly crowded. Drones, radios, sensors, satellites, electronic warfare systems, and wireless networks all compete for space...
